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Len Glasser’s Safety Shoes
After a bit of an unexpected lag, we’ve debuted our latest film on CartoonBrewFilms: Safety Shoes (1965) directed and designed by Leonard …
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Enchanted Trailer
I’m still not sure about this flick… but the trailer looks pretty good to me.
WIA NYC Animation Festival Returns For Third Year, Celebrating Animation And Community
On November 1, WIA NYC will showcase 28 animated films by emerging students and established independent filmmakers at SVA Theatre.
Animation Writing Roundup
Quick Stop Entertainment has a lengthy interview with Bloom County and Opus creator Berkeley Breathed. Breathed talks about the earlier …
An Animation Legend Has A Garage Sale
The last surviving member of Disney’s Nine Old Men, Ollie Johnston, has moved to Oregon, and this past weekend, there was a quietly …
Monday Morning Inspiration: Now Hear This (1962)
Now Hear This is without doubt one of the weirder (and more difficult to find) WB shorts that Chuck Jones ever made, but it’s a nice …
Discovering Cartoon Network
Australian cartoonist Elliot Cowan recently discovered that he could receive Cartoon Network on his digital cable. After watching it, he …
A Fair(y) Use Tale
Film history professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University explains copyright law, via clips from Disney and Pixar films, in this clever …
Artists get down to business at Otis
Attention L.A. area artists. This one’s for you: on Saturday, June 9th, from 10 am to 1 pm, at Otis College of Art and Design on their …
THIS WEEKEND: SketchCrawl and Charity Auction
The 14th edition of SketchCrawl takes place this Saturday, May 19. For those who don’t know, SketchCrawl was an idea started by Pixar …
You Asked For It
Here’s an kinescope excerpt from the classic 1950s TV show, You Asked For It, from sometime during its first year of broadcast (1950-51 …
2007 CalArts Student Films
Last week I checked out the CalArts Producers’ Show, the year-end screening where the best student films from the school year are …
Persepolis trailer
As enthused as I am over the big budget, widescreen Hollywood animated blockbusters en route to the cineplex this summer, I’ve been …
Update on Bee Movie
New trailer (with actual footage from the film) posted here. Courtesy of Hollywood Elsewhere: direct from the Cannes Film Festival …
CalArts Teaches The Fine Art of MoCap
Don’t know if you’ve heard but CalArts is finally catching up with the times and renaming itself the California Institute of Motion …
More Rare Kimball Video
Brew reader Dave Stuckey has uploaded yet another crazy rare Ward Kimball clip: a Firehouse Five Plus Two performance from the MGM film …
Calvin and Hobbes Animated!
We may never see a Bill Watterson-approved animated version of Calvin and Hobbes but the following student film from Italy is a nice …
Len Lye’s Post Office Films
Ok, so imagine you’re the post office and you need to make three animated shorts to illustrate the following concepts: new parcel rates, …
Forgotten Flintstones on MySpace
Here is one of the best MySpace pages I have seen devoted to a classic cartoon series. Forgotten Flintstones contains a lot of fun …
Free LA Seminar: Flash Animation Essentials
Six Point Harness, one of the up-and-coming Flash animation studios in Los Angeles, is hosting a FREE two-day seminar this weekend (May …
New Animation Bookstore in Toronto
Toronto-area folks now have their own local alternative to Bud Plant and Stuart Ng’s. The Labyrinth is a brand new bookstore specializing …
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